Animalor wrote:Welp I tried it out last night.
Install went well and I was able to use that trial key with my old station account without a problem.
Controls is pretty much like old school EQ. Nothing much to say about that.
Combat I thought was odd cause monsters will path in zig-zags before coming to you so it makes it hard to target and attack stuff before it starts wailing on you.
Graphics I wasn't impresses at all with until I realised that I was set to Best Performance by default. I thought I'd have fun and kicked it up to Extreme Graphics. System handled it beautifully on noob island and I was getting about 35 fps. I imagine it's a diff story out in the real world where areas are much bigger.
Advancement seemed pretty much on par with the previous EQ. Made it to L5 in about 2-ish hours.
Quest system actualy gives you more clues than the WoW one does and draws a line you can follow for where you havta go.
Pretty much the same observations but..
Is the entire game in that letter box type of interface or is that just for the tutorial? If its the entire game I think that would anoy me to death.
Over all I think the PC models blow chunks but the world it self is by far the most spectacular graphics I have seen yet in a video game.
In combat I kept having to click attack twice. Is that normal? seemed redundant to me but couldnt find an option to turn it off.
The game it self looks good over all and is very playable, with that said, after 5 years of EQ1 I had a lot of time to become bitter to SOE. They did their best to alienate the player base for 4 and a half of those 5 years because they had the market cornered, but by the time they realized what they were doing the only thing I was waiting for was ANYTHING to release so I could get away from them (ya Im a addict). I think its interesting that SOE is now focusing/touting their customer service and the "listening to the players" bit and the release of WoW drove that point home with the mass of people who jumped ship from SOE to Blizzard.
Dont get me wrong I'm no Blizzard fanboi, I could care less who makes the game I play as long as it isnt Sony. Over 4 years of bad customer service tainted me and I would drop Blizzard in a heart beat if they become the shit stain that SOE CS became.
I'm curious about that as well.
WoW is a load of fun to play in small spurts, but I'm not sure where it's longevity will come from.
And this is Blizzards main problem right now, lack of content. I have no idea what they have in store for their players but if its not spectacular we may very well see the masses return to Sony.
